1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Tijuana, Mexico before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Tijuana—1,922,523, America/Tijuana, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: municipal seat of Tijuana, State of Baja California, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tijuana is GeoNames ID 3981609. Its recorded administrative path is Tijuana → Baja California → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Tijuana occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-12-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Tijuana ranks 216 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 2; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 29. Its 1,922,523 population value is 2.38 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 2.36 times the 816,326 regional median. Tijuana falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Mexico population cohort. Tijuana's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Tijuana's three nearest other atlas coordinates are San Diego at 28.079 km with 1,404,452 recorded people; Mexicali at 145.848 km with 1,032,686 recorded people; Los Angeles at 207.298 km with 3,820,914 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 179.219 km. Compared with San Diego, Tijuana's recorded population is 1.37 times as large. Against Tijuana, San Diego follows San Diego County → California → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Mexico, uses America/Los_Angeles instead of America/Tijuana, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Tijuana's. Against Tijuana, Mexicali follows Mexicali → Baja California → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Tijuana identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Tijuana's. Against Tijuana, Los Angeles follows Los Angeles County → California → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Mexico, uses America/Los_Angeles instead of America/Tijuana, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Tijuana's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 310 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tijuana's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3981609, the coordinate pair 32.5027 / 117.0037, country rank 2 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 5391811 at 28.079 km bind Tijuana to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tijuana's reference point is 32.5027° north and 117.0037° west. The IANA identifier America/Tijuana is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Tijuana's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Tijuana's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tijuana's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tijuana, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Tijuana's closest other entries in this atlas are San Diego (28.079 km), Mexicali (145.848 km), Los Angeles (207.298 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-12-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.